Gigabyte & ASUS Call Off Joint Venture

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On Aug 8, 2006, GIGABYTE and ASUS together announced they have entered into a joint venture to produce GIGABYTE branded motherboards and graphics cards. A spokesman of GIGABYTE said a resolution of the board of directors was passed on the Mar 22 to call off the plan of forming joint venture. It’s explained the confusion of clients and suppliers, together with the changes of both internal and external factors has lead to this hard decision. In the present environment, the necessity of forming joint venture is no longer as strong as expected, and thus suspension is the best solution for both shareholders, said GIGABYTE’s spokesman. Although the joint venture has given up, GIGABYTE intends to keep its move on transferring part of its businesses onto the new subsidiary, meaning that a new GIGABYTE brand will come out soon after all.

Source: HKEPC (http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/news.php?tid=760190&starttime=0&endtime=0)

[LiNKiN]

Wow I really didnt expect this especially after all of the other "mergers".

[WarEagleAU]

Kind of disappointing really. I was hoping it would go through allowing the best mobos on the market, period. Too bad. Oh well, maybe Asus spreading itself too thin had something to do with it?

[tkpenalty]

Aww.... I want a P5NSLI with fully solid caps :roll: Yeah sorta dissapointed.... I mean they both rule at manufacturing GPUs. What should they be called? GigaAsus